Sirka for gunpowder - Ivan Andrusyak

Traven 1637 rock, town of Berezan not far from Pereyaslav. A girl with a wonderful nickname, Sirka, watches at night behind the dighouse with a bottle of saltpeter. Then the robbers rush into the digging pit, so that in the light of daylight they can feed the two kidnapped strangers - a Cossack and a Jew. Having taken refuge at the grave, Sirka begins to drink sweetly and discovers even more darkly and unsafely... Chemical industry “from the graves”, secret chambers for the preparation of gunpowder, a chase in the swamps, a wild double, “long-range shooters” of the XVII I've been around for centuries and there are still a lot of coins and wonders on you in the new the story of one of the most beloved current Ukrainian children's writers, Ivan Andrusyak. A story about friendship and joy, about meanness and honor, about the birth of first feelings and the unique Ukrainian problem of self-knowledge.